KJ Sanchez is founder/CEO of American Records, a theater company devoted to chronicling our time (www. amrec.us). As a playwright, she has been produced at theaters including Asolo Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Two River Theater, Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE, Round House Theater, Working Classroom, Cornerstone, and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages. She has directed plays by Dan Dietz, Kyle Schmidt, Heather
Raffo, Jose Rivera, Quiara Hudes, and Kristoffer Diaz. As an actress she has been on stage at The Humana Festival, The Goodman, Berkely Rep, Long Wharf, New York Theater Workshop, and BAM. She is the voice of many characters in the cartoons Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. As the producer, director and co-author of ReEntry, a play based on interviews with Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, KJ produced its international tour and contracted with the Department of Defense, taking the play to service members at more than thirty military bases and hospitals throughout the US and Internationally.